Avon Foundation Offers Funding for Breast Cancer Research Project

Deadline: July 1, 2008

The Avon Foundation (http://www.avoncompany.com/women/index.html) has launched a
new initiative in 2008 called the Avon Breast Cancer Research Bridge Program to provide bridge funding to scientists with innovative concepts in breast cancer while they develop the pilot data necessary to seek funding from larger sources such as the National Institutes of Health or the National Cancer Institute.

For this program, Avon seeks to provide bridge funding so that innovative breast cancer research projects do not lose momentum or end prematurely. The program welcomes applications from scientists working in breast cancer who have had a recent proposal rejected from the NIH/NCI. Applications submitted to the NIH/NCI within the last twelve months that have been reviewed at study section and ranked in the top 20th percentile but that were not selected for NIH funding are eligible for this program.

Proposals to Avon must focus on use of human tissues and samples, or cell culture or other models that do not involve the use of animals. Research involving the use of animals will not be funded by Avon.

Avon 2008 research priority areas include advancing the understanding of the etiology and causes of breast cancer; the study of gene-environment interactions or possible role of environmental factors in breast cancer; understanding how changes in breast tissue over time alter future risk of breast cancer (e.g., changes in breast tissue related to age at first pregnancy); primary prevention of breast cancer; and applying biomarker knowledge to develop new tools for early detection of breast cancer.

Applicants may request up to $300,000 in total costs (up to $150,000 total costs per year, for up to two years).

Visit the Avon Foundation Web site (http://www.avoncompany.com/women/index.html) to download the complete Research Request for Proposals.

American Heart Association National Innovative Research Grant Program

Application deadline is July 1, 2008.

The goal of this program is to support highly innovative, high-risk, high-reward research that could ultimately lead to critical discoveries or major advancements that will accelerate the field of cardiovascular and stroke research. Funding is available for research directly related to cardiovascular function and disease, stroke, or to related clinical, basic science, and public health problems. Proposals are encouraged from all basic, epidemiological and clinical disciplines that bear on cardiovascular and stroke problems. The total award is $150,000 over two years.


Department of Defense Gulf War Illness Research Program

The Department of Defense will fund Idea Awards, Investigator-Initiated Research Awards, and Clinical Trial Awards. Each Program Announcement is available electronically for downloading from the Grants.gov website (http://www.grants.gov), the CDMRP website http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/gwirp.htm , and the CDMRP eReceipt Website (https://cdmrp.org).

Submission Deadlines:

Idea Award
Pre-Application/Preproposal: July 2, 2008
Invitations to Submit a Full Proposal: August 8, 2008
Proposal: October 15, 2008

Investigator-Initiated Research Award
Pre-Application/Preproposal: July 2, 2008
Invitations to Submit a Full Proposal: August 8, 2008
Proposal: October 15, 2008

Clinical Trial Award
Pre-Application/Preproposal: July 2, 2008
Invitations to Submit a Full Proposal: August 8, 2008
Proposal: October 15, 2008

As of 2007, proposals requesting funding from the CDMRP have been submitted through the Federal Government's single entry portal, Grants.gov, in compliance with Public Law 106-107. Individual program announcements and required forms can be found on the Grants.gov website. Pre-applications are required and must be submitted through the CDMRP eReceipt website, https://cdmrp.org, prior to proposal submission to Grants.gov.

Program-related questions should be directed to the Program Help Desk at (301) 619-7079; email: cdmrp.pa@amedd.army.mil ; eReceipt questions should be directed to (301) 682-5507; email: help@cdmrp.org.

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